Scott Tracy

5 million foreigners in Thailand, I am told. I 54,000 registered in this site. Where are the other 4,946,000? Already vaccinated?

Still waiting in Si Saket...

Has the committee the authority to propose changes? Has a referendum taken pl!ace about changing the constitution? Does parliament have authority to change the constitution? After all, I was under the impression that only the National Council for Peace and Order people could do that.

Me too.

Dead friend?

Give me a break and <deleted> grow up. There are bigger things to worry about. If you can't grow up, look to your history when most of Thailand was part of the Khmer Empire and see the style and architecture of the temples at that time. If your netizens are so incensed that the MOC is doing nothing, what the <deleted> do you want them to do? Object to planning permission? Get a <deleted> life.

Why? The US FDA has approved it. Does no one recognise this? Why does Thailand, and probably other countries have to have more information?I Mutual recognition is the way to go. This just annoys the hell out of me.

How would you propose the NHS operates? To a standard that says each person is entitled to see a GP on the day they get sick? Each person is entitled to be seen immediately, irrespective of what the emergency is? That the number of hospitals and staff and ancillaries are sufficient such that if any person gets sick, they get seen immediately? Or perhaps, the standard that says, hospitals and such will be sufficient, depending on number of people in a catchment area, age and infirmities in the area, possible number of coach crashes per year, air crashes per year, football stadia, where there may be a fight or 3, Friday night brawls, etc...? How would you run the NHS?

Worry not, as the expiry date is probably calculated with a reasonable margin of safety. Probably around a factor of 1 1/2 or 2, when correctly stored and handled.

With regards to the positioning of the broken down car, I suggest the hard shoulder is not sufficiently wide for a stopped vehicle. I do see the Accord appear to be moving toward the parked car, some distance before the vehicle was hit. I noticed that the Accord had appeared to have crossed into the hard shoulder some time prior to the accident. I cannot say with certainty whether the car had its hazard lights on. There is a lot to be said, at this point, for the practise in the area where I live, to place a tree branch some short distance behind the stopped vehicle. Or perhaps, as required in other countries, 2 red triangles strategically placed so that an approaching driver either sees them, or the vehicle runs over them, thus alerting the driver that something is amiss. It has to be said, though, driver and passenger were still around the car, whereas I was always taught, get away from it, as far as you safely can. That being said, there appeared to be no safe havens for people on that road. And the concrete barriers along the road are not tall enough.

63, in Isarn. Still waiting for expatvac to get back to me.

I am in favour of renewable energy, as such. We have...when I say we, I mean the wife, has nearly 2 rai of land out the back of the house currently not in use, as rice farming is a loss making exercise. I would love to plant a field of of panels and a battery house for storage. Problem is, cost benefit exercise shows it is beyond my means. No one in the village is able to help fund such a project either, so the land remains unused. But the wife refuses to part with it. Same as the 3 rai nearer the local town. Can't sell this as it has papers on it. No one wants rice land with papers. Nothing generates an income. Land is derelict, deserted. What is the point?

Another 'No <deleted> Sherlock' moment.

What are the 'at risk' categories? Who 'certifies' one as being 'at risk'? Why only those registered with NHSO? Why only 10% of the type 1 pharmacies registered? Why do they have to 'register'? Pitiful.

Me too...

Time to rip it up...No pay, no pavement.

Maj Sorathip along with fellow officers and rescue workers from the Mai Khao Tambon Administrative Organisation (OrBorTor) arrived at the scene to find the pickup by the side of the road, still impaled by the guardrail. RTFA.

Which is worse, really. Should have paid for the meal. Now the restaurant owner has a hold over these coppers. If coppers cannot say no to a friendly offer of a laap, then they should be fired, in my view.

It's what you know about who you know...

Extrapolate...those without work permits are not covered under this anouncement...No one else is 'entitled'.

Still bored and still waiting for expatvac finger back to me. Got a message from the British Consulate that there will be an opening for registration of AZ in Bangkok tomorrow for vaccination between tomorrow and 25th. Fine, but I'm not in Bangkok, nor even close...about 280 miles...

And who, pray tell is legally allowed to sell snakeoil?

How is unemployment defined in Thailand? Does anyone know? I see many people digging the canals wider and deeper so that they can take more water than their neighbours. A few people weeding in the rice fields, a few working in shops they run and own. Fast food places. Mostly though, drinking and talking. Are these the employable ones who are counted as unemployed? Kids, in my eyes anyways, 20 ish year olds doing nothing all day apart from lounging around. 40 to 60 year old men, drinking, running round on motorbikes getting white whiskey, beer and ice. Are they classified as employed? The numbers of employed seem to me to be picked from the air.

Ah, the old 'politically motivated' ploy. Political opportunism, political motivation, political this, political that. What does it actually mean? That someone does or says something for political gain? Well, in my view, and don't hang me if you disagree. Politics and politicians have provided me with merriment and mirth for a long time, and rank alongside lawyers, used car sales people, estate agents. More lately, alongside bank think tanks when spouting about tourism, economists, analysts and countless others categories of occupations.

I read FET and immediately thought Field Effect Transistor. Must the way my brain is wired.